Vera Zasulich

Vera Zasulich (8 August 1849-8 May 1919) was a Russian Menshevik revolutionary.

Biography
Vera Ivanova Zasulich was born on 8 August 1849 in Mikhaylovka, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire, one of the four daughters of an impoverished noble family. From 1869 to 1873, she was imprisoned for her socialist views, and she shot Colonel Fyodor Trepov for flogging a political prisoner. She would later be released, and she went into exile in Switzerland, where she helped in founding the Emancipation of Labor party. In 1903, she joined the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, and she died in 1919 after the Russian Revolution succeeded in overthrowing the monarchy.